Australia has come and past and it has been two years this month since returning to the states after that adventure. It was incredible and continues to evoke in me heartwarming memories of excitement and anticipation of new place. The beautiful thing about life, though, is that life is an adventure so even when one event ends another begins, and boy did I jump head first into a new big one.
Post grad life has in and of itself been the transition to beat all transitions but because I love taking on multiple things at one time I decided to throw being a newlywed into the mix. So in May I graduated with my Psychology bachelors degree and less than a month later, the first of June, I married my best friend and high school sweetheart and moved to good ol Whittier, California. Although compared to Australia, this move seems significantly less exciting and for sure less off a change in culture, I see already how God is going to transform my small expectations.
I am slowly- because everything in my life takes me a while to catch on to- realizing that perhaps being asked to stay local is a greater challenge than transferring life to thousands of miles away. Don't get me wrong, there are tons of details, preparations, expenses, differences to learn about and work through when moving or traveling anywhere, but when asked to be at peace with the everyday and the mundanely ordinary of moving virtually next door is difficult to say the least. Wanderlust is real and especially after taking that first big leap of traveling overseas the restlessness increases as the opportunity decreases. Although logical, tell that to my heart that is aching for adventure and the chance to learn and grow by further engulfing my entire entity in another people's living.
Inexplicably fascinating, then, is staying here with no plans to change and learning to find beauty in the people I am surrounded by. Here in lies the rum, so to speak; here God has blown my simplistic decidings of how life will be into vast endless opportunities to be explored. Whether that be the mom of four in my bible study or the business man who comes every day for a grande Starbucks dark roast or the struggling college student simply in need of a listener. In every area of life, in every state and town and in every season, people are living. Even though this sounds and really is rather simple, the truth behind it is filled with unending possibility which then reignites this learner's fire for life, as the Creator knew it would.
It is easy to just do life, but we are called to be so much more than a being that does. We are given life so that we may live and make the most of the time here; in every city whether that be Sydney, London, New York, or even Whittier, I am deciding today will be an adventure filled with opportunities to love and live generously.
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